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                                                                                The architect advocates for the Architecture constituency in the MSF Team Model. The architect’s main goal is to ensure success of the project by designing the foundations of the application. This includes defining both the organizational structure of the application and the physical structure of its deployment. In these endeavors, the architect’s goal is to reduce complexity by dividing the system into clean and simple partitions. The resulting architecture is extremely important because it not only dictates how the system will be built going forward, but also establishes whether the application will exhibit the many traits that are essential for a successful project. These include its usability, whether it is reliable and maintainable, whether it meets performance and security standards, and whether it can be evolved easily in the face of changing requirements. A person assigned to this role should be added to the Contributor permissions group. This allows them to do all that they need to perform their function, such as create and modify documents, work items, and work products.
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